EHRs
It’s an exciting time in healthcare as artificial intelligence has moved from concept to capability, offering new ways to reduce…
EHRs remain among the largest investments healthcare organizations will ever make — and several multimillion- and multibillion-dollar projects are still in progress in 2026, even as others crossed the finish line this fall. Here are the most expensive EHR implementations…
The Department of Veterans Affairs has finished its 2026 EHR deployments after going live with an Oracle Health EHR system at hospitals in Cleveland and Anchorage, Alaska, on Oct. 24. The system went live at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA…
EHR vendors and the companies that build on their platforms are pitching health systems a growing lineup of tools, many of them powered by AI and marketed as ways to save clinicians time, flag at-risk patients earlier or take work…
Hospital mergers and acquisitions are reshaping health systems’ EHR footprints, with deals completed or announced in 2026 prompting hospitals to adopt new platforms, consolidate existing systems and plan future transitions. Here are 11 hospital deals involving EHR changes, according to…
Epic used its developer conference to open more of its platform to outside AI and apps, and to remind those developers that the traffic they generate lands on health systems’ infrastructure. The second annual Open@Epic ran Oct. 21-22 at the…
Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner has spent nearly five decades building the company by declining to do many of the things software companies are expected to do. The firm has never gone public, never taken venture capital or private…
Oracle Health is expanding its reach beyond EHRs, introducing AI tools for clinical care, revenue cycle management and hospital operations while pursuing new partnerships across healthcare and life sciences. The company’s efforts include AI-powered clinical assistants, new financial management capabilities…
Middleburg Heights, Ohio-based Southwest General Health Center is expanding its partnership with Oracle to integrate clinical, financial and operational systems across the organization. The 368-bed independent, nonprofit hospital will adopt Oracle Health Patient Accounting, Oracle Health Data Intelligence and Oracle…
New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health has completed a major scheduling conversion ahead of its Nov. 7 Epic go-live, which will encompass four hospitals and 538 ambulatory sites. The milestone, known as future encounter conversion, was completed Oct. 16 and…
An EHR transition is one of the most expensive projects a health system takes on, and the costs rarely stop at the purchase price. Training, temporary cuts to clinic volumes and revenue cycle disruption can drag on operating results for…